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The 1836 fire of Chartres Cathedral by François-Alexandre Pernot (1837) In 1506, lightning destroyed the north spire, which was rebuilt in the ' Flamboyant ' style from 1507 to 1513 by architect Jean Texier.
1836 – Fire at Chartres Cathedral destroyed the sweet chestnut "forest" above the vaults. 1837 – The Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia destroyed except for The Hermitage. 1844 – Separate fires at St. Michael's & St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Churches during the Philadelphia nativist riots, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Canterbury Cathedral – The cathedral was destroyed by fire in 1067. Another fire in 1174 damaged the choir, leading to the rebuilding of the east end of the cathedral. An earthquake damaged the cathedral in 1382. An 1872 fire destroyed the roof of the Trinity Chapel. [80] Fires sustained during World War II bombings were quickly extinguished ...
It was built on the site of the former Chartres cathedral of Romanesque architecture, which was destroyed by fire in 1194 (that former cathedral had been built on the ruins of an ancient Celtic temple, later replaced by a Roman temple). Begun in 1205, the construction of Notre-Dame de Chartres was completed 66 years later.
The rebuilt Chartres Cathedral (1194) is considered the first example of a Gothic cathedral. building of Classic Gothic. [12] A series of earlier cathedrals in Chartres beginning in the fourth century, were destroyed by fire. The cathedral immediately previous to the present church burned in 1194, leaving only the crypt, towers, and the ...
This section of the cathedral was built after a fire in 1135 and is the only part to survive the 1195 fire. The central lancet shows Christ's nativity and life and is flanked by two slightly smaller lancets of his Passion and his human and Davidic roots with a Tree of Jesse , [ Note 2 ] the earliest surviving representation of this motif in ...
The Romanesque crypt of Chartres Cathedral was greatly enlarged in the 11th century; it is U-shaped and 230 m (750 ft) long. It survived the fire in the 12th century which destroyed the Romanesque cathedral, and was used as the foundation for the new Gothic cathedral. The walls of the crypt chapels were painted with Gothic murals.
In 1506, he was commissioned to rebuild the northern bell tower of the Chartres Cathedral [3] destroyed by lightning on 26 July 1506. In Chartres, Jehan de Beauce also built: [3] [4] The renovation of the Église Saint-Aignan de Chartres between 1513 and 1525. The construction of the pavillon of the Horloge astronomique de Chartres in 1520.